Big Data approaches for the analysis of large-scale fMRI data using Apache Spark and GPU processing: A demonstration on resting-state fMRI data from the human connectome project

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue JAN, 2016, Pages

  Boubela, Roland N ^a,b   Kalcher, Klaudius ^a,b   Huf, Wolfgang ^a,b   Našel, Christian ^c   Moser, Ewald ^a,b,d  

^a Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Optical Imaging and its Translation to Medicine   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Universitätsklinikum Tulln Karl Landsteiner Privatuniversität für Gesundheitswissenschaften   (Austria)

^d HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apache Spark; Big data analytics; Distributed computing; fMRI; Graph analysis; Machine learning; Scalable architecture; Statistical computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONNECTOME; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; PIPELINE; REST;

EID: 84958073764     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00492     Document Type: Article

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